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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI document
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:08:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708081208.01080.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1186561082.4430.63.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com>


> The needed code changing is minimal. In fact, I can boot 32bit Linux
> kernel on my x86_64 EFI machine. With setup as follow:
>
> 1. Apply the efi-fb.patch
Just for the frame buffer, right?

> 2. make efi fb driver not depend on EFI
> 3. configure kernel as follow:
>    a. CONFIG_EFI is turned off
>    b. CONFIG_FB_EFI is turned on

Hmm, how does the 32bit kernel know where the e820 map is passed then?
With CONFIG_EFI turned off it will just ask the real mode BIOS I think
and I doubt elilo simulates that.

Or did you apply more patches?

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-08 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-31  3:13 [PATCH 5/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI document Huang, Ying
2007-07-31  4:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-07-31  6:58   ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-01 17:16     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07  9:29       ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-07  9:54         ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08  8:18           ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-08 10:08             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-08-08 13:46               ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-08 14:09                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 15:11                   ` huang ying
2007-08-08 16:23                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 16:10               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08 16:22                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 17:17                   ` Eric W. Biederman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-09  9:47 Etienne Lorrain
2007-08-09 10:51 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 14:09   ` huang ying
2007-08-09 16:29     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-09 17:01     ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 17:25       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-10 13:03       ` Huang, Ying

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